RT Article
T1 History, Memory and Community in Cistercian Normandy (12th–13th Centuries)
JF The Downside review
VO 139
IS 1
SP 44
OP 64
A1 Allen, Richard ca. 21. Jh.
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1753528895
AB While the textual production of Normandy’s Cistercian abbeys has not lacked for scholarly attention, a detailed study of Cistercian historical writing in the duchy remains to be written. This article looks in small part to fill this historiographical gap by examining those historical works produced in and copied by the Cistercian abbeys of Normandy between the beginning of the 12th and the end of the 13th centuries. In doing so, it aims to shed new light on the sorts of historical texts copied or written by Normandy’s White Monks. It contextualises these works within the historiographical culture of both the duchy itself and the wider Cistercian world, and shows how the Cistercians of Normandy played a distinctive role in the transmission of key historical texts, among them the universal chronicle of Sigebert of Gembloux (c. 1030–1112) and Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni. It includes a ‘reconstruction’ of the so-called Chronicon Gofferni.
K1 Sigebert of Gembloux
K1 Normandy
K1 Memory
K1 Historiography
K1 Gesta
K1 Einhard
K1 Cistercians
K1 Annals
K1 13th century
K1 12th century
DO 10.1177/0012580621995456